Siege of Damanhour

The Siege of Damanhour (early June 1798) was a battle of the Egyptian Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars that occurred when the 1,320-strong French Armee d'Orient, led by generals Napoleon Bonaparte and Louis Desaix, captured the city of Damanhour without firing a shot. The French army landed at Alexandria and proceeded to march south from there, besieging the nearby city of Damanhour to the south of Alexandria with the goal of securing the road to Cairo. The French faced a mere 663 Mamelukes under Babur Hussaini, and thhe French secured the surrender of the Mamelukes without needing to assault the city. The fall of Damanhour was the first major battle of the Egypt campaign, and the French succeeded in capturing the city, leading up to the Fall of Cairo.